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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Artemis II mission made history in April 2026 when it carried four astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, but new research suggests the flight also left a powerful and previously unappreciated mark much closer to home: temporary "holes" in Earth's ionosphere, the electrically charged layer of the upper atmosphere, large enough that researchers say they could have briefly thrown off the accuracy of GPS signals across North America, according to a study reported this week. Illustration: NASA's Artemis II rocket launching through Earth's upper atmosphere, with a glowing disturbed layer high above the vehicle. This is an illustration, not a photograph of the actual launch. What Happened According to researchers at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, the Artemis II flight disturbed the ionosphere not once but three times: during lift-off on April 1, 2026, during an engine burn about two ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Rybrevant Faspro, a subcutaneous dual-targeted therapy from Johnson & Johnson, for adults with advanced head and neck cancer whose disease has progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy and immunotherapy, the agency and the company announced on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The decision gives patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma a new option in a setting where, according to Johnson & Johnson, there has been no new advance in second-line treatment for a decade. Rybrevant Faspro — known generically as amivantamab and hyaluronidase-lpuj — is the first dual-targeted therapy approved for this group of patients. It is given as a single agent by injection under the skin, and it works by targeting two proteins at once, EGFR and MET, both of which can help head and neck cancers grow and resist treatment. The approval was based on the OrigAMI-4 trial, in w...

FRANKFURT — More than 100 European companies have warned that proposed reforms of the European Union's carbon market could sharply raise costs for energy-intensive industries before they have the means to decarbonise, threatening investment and production in Europe. The warning came in a joint letter seen by Reuters and reported on 5 November 2026, signed by major industrial names including Covestro, Evonik, Wacker Chemie, Voestalpine and the steel division of Thyssenkrupp. The companies said they were ready to invest in the green transition, but argued that the European Commission's proposal for overhauling the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would not, on its own, create the conditions to make those investments possible and competitive. Illustration: A European steel plant with smokestacks under a cloudy sky, representing the energy-intensive industries warning about EU carbon market reform. What Happened More than 100 European companies put their names to a joint lette...

SAN DIEGO — SpaceX has selected Qualcomm to supply the chips and software for the ground network of Starlink Mobile, its planned nationwide terrestrial 5G service in the United States, the companies announced on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 — a deal Qualcomm called its biggest 5G agreement yet and a direct challenge to America's established wireless carriers. Under the multi-year agreement, Qualcomm will provide its Dragonwing cellular infrastructure platforms — the QRU100 radio processor, the QDU100 baseband processor and commercial-grade Layer 1 software — to power tens of thousands of Starlink Mobile base stations across the country, with deployment scheduled to begin in 2027. Financial terms were not disclosed. Illustration: Satellites in low Earth orbit beaming signals to a network of 5G cell towers across the United States. What Happened Qualcomm announced on Wednesday that SpaceX had chosen its Dragonwing QRU100 and QDU100 platforms, along with commercial-grade Layer...

JAKARTA. Indonesia's economy grew 5.47 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2026, beating market forecasts and underlining the resilience of Southeast Asia's largest economy, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced at a press conference in Jakarta on Thursday, 5 November 2026. The result came in ahead of the roughly 5.2 percent median forecast in a Wall Street Journal poll of economists, and it capped a quarter in which household spending, government outlays, manufacturing and exports all moved in the same direction. Illustration: Jakarta's skyline at dusk, symbolising Indonesia's growing economy. (AI-generated illustration) What Happened According to BPS, gross domestic product rose 5.47 percent in the July-to-September quarter compared with the same period a year earlier. That was faster than the 5.29 percent recorded in the second quarter of 2026 and the 5.04 percent recorded in the third quarter of 2025, marking a clear step up in momentum. It was also a...

WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump brought Russian and Ukrainian representatives together at the White House on Thursday, 5 November 2026, to mark the localised ceasefire she brokered in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, and used the occasion to call for "something more enduring than a temporary cease-fire" between the two nations. The ceremony, the first time such a meeting has taken place, according to the New York Post, came two days after the midterm elections and as the war approaches the end of its fifth year. Illustration: First Lady Melania Trump addresses Russian and Ukrainian delegations during a ceremonial meeting in the White House Grand Foyer. This is an artist's impression, not a photograph of the actual event. What Happened On Thursday, 5 November 2026, Melania Trump hosted senior Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House to celebrate the conclusion of a localised ceasefire in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukrain...

DARMSTADT, Germany — ESA's Hera spacecraft has arrived at the Didymos binary asteroid system and sent back its first close-range image of the world humanity deliberately changed, the agency announced on Thursday, 5 November 2026. Taken from about 60 kilometres away by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, it shows the face of the 780-metre-wide Didymos that no camera had ever seen — a rugged, boulder-strewn hemisphere — with its moon Dimorphos, struck by NASA's DART in 2022, visible at lower left, partly in shadow. Illustration: ESA's Hera spacecraft approaches the binary asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos. This is an artist's impression, not a photograph of the actual spacecraft or asteroids. What Happened On Thursday, 5 November 2026, ESA announced that Hera had reached its destination — the Didymos asteroid system, 196.8 million kilometres from Earth — and released its first close-range science image — the first view of this side of Didymos. Until now, every close vi...